"If and if and if. I could go along that passage and find new strange rooms."
— Haruki Murakami (via moderateclimates)
From “Cartography of Silence” by Adrienne Rich
The technology of silence
The rituals, etiquette
the blurring of terms
silence not absence
of words or music or even
raw sounds
Silence can be a plan
rigorously executed
the blueprint to a life
It is a presence
it has a history a form
Do not confuse it
with any kind of absence
- Reporter: Why do you always write strong female characters?
- Joss Whedon: Because you keep asking me that question.
"As to experience, intellectual and moral, the creative imagination can make a little go a long way, provided it remains long enough in the mind and is sufficiently brooded upon. One good heartbreak will furnish the poet with many songs, and the novelist with a considerable number of novels. But they must have hearts that can break."
— Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction
"The cold took his breath away: he breathed in, and felt every hair in his nostrils freeze into rigidity."
— American Gods
